… and there’s your chronic emptiness
spiraling upward in search of words
you’ll dare not say
without irony.
You should have stayed at home.
It’s part of the social contract
to seem to be where your body is,
and you’ve been elsewhere like this,
for Christ’s sake, countless times;
behave, feign.
Stephen Dunn, “At the Restaurant”
More and more you learn to live
with the unacceptable.
You sense the ever-hidden God
retreating even farther,
terrified or embarrassed.
You might as well be a clown,
big silly clothes, no evidence of desire.
Stephen Dunn, “Before the Sky Darkens”
Ellen Page & Drew Barrymore … body language
Ellen Page at the Whip It! Press Conference at the Toronto Film Festival, September 15 2009
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